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A Look at the Outer Space Suite Inside Singapore's Wanderlust Hotel
It's been in magazines and on design blogs aplenty, but the "Space" Suite at Singapore's Wanderlust Hotel is a space you've got to see with your own eyes to appreciate.
Every duplex suite on the top floor of this 29-room hotel in the Little India neighborhood has been conceptualized by local design company fFurious; the "Space" suite is just one of the many looks, and by far the most popular. Maybe the allure comes from the mystery of outer space, or a youth spent sleeping under astronaut-covered sheets? Our guess: it's because the room is pitch-black with only a fiber optic ceiling of stars at night—great for a fantasy night of romance or if you're anticipating a crazy hangover.
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A Look at Hilton's Brand New Technology Lounge
Back in April we learned that the Hilton Tysons Corner in McLean, Virginia was undergoing a massive renovation that would actually set the blueprint for all future new Hilton Hotels. Yay, new stuff!
The fruits of the renovation debuted five brand new design concepts from the check-in area to the restaurant and of course, up in the guestrooms. We were able to peep at some of the new designs via computerized renderings but we've only just noticed an actual photo of Hilton's new Technology Lounge pictured right here.
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A Few of Our Favorite Things at East, a 'Business Hotel with a Life'
We got a chance to tour the East Hotel in Hong Kong in the city's Taikoo Shing district which bills itself as a "business hotel with a life" and while the hanging chairs in the suites definitely topped our list of Things We Liked, there's so much more to explore.
Our contributing editor, JetsetCD, did a thorough review of the hotel last year so be sure to read her play-by-play of an overnight stay if you're interested in booking a room here. But for now, allow us to pull out a few of our favorite things about East:
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Could You Be Paying for Your Next Hotel Stay in Bitcoin?
For a brief moment this year, the Howard Johnson in Fullerton, Calif., near Disneyland, was taking an unusual form of currency--bitcoin.
Bitcoin is an electronic currency that's only accepted in the digital world. It's not recognized by any government, it's entirely unregulated and the only ways to get your hands on bitcoin is to either buy it with real cash or spend days "mining" for it on the internet. For more on how it works, you can (try to) read the bitcoin entry on Wikipedia.
Yet, Jefferson Kim, the owner and manager of both the Howard Johnson and the Red Roof Inn in Buena Park was eager to use bitcoin for hotel reservations saying that he would "personally like to see the BTC succeed." On the hotel's website, he detailed how to pay for a room with bitcoin.
One person who took him up on this? Wired contributing editor, Joshua Davis, who wrote about bitcoin for a piece in the New Yorker (the October 10th issue.) Davis booked a room at the hotel online for 10.305 bitcoins.
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The Four Seasons LA Will Soon Be Equipped With iPad 2s
Starting October 3, the posh guestrooms at the Four Seasons Los Angeles will be a whole lot more glamorous thanks to the brand-new iPad2s that will be installed.
The gadgets will be loaded with ICE Technology which will enable guests to make restaurant reservations, order room service, book massage at the spa, put in housekeeping requests and call up their Porsche from valet, all through the iPad.
Now, while hotels using iPads in the rooms to perform functions that a telephone once took care of is nothing new, this is a huge step for an older luxury brand like Four Seasons Hotels. And the FS LA is not just the first hotel on the West Coast to have this technology but also the first Four Seasons hotel in the world to feature it. Yeah, they're kind of a big deal.
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Have a Slumber Party, and a Sound Bath, In The Mojave Desert
An hour away from Palm Springs sits a 38-foot high, 55-foot diameter, dome-shaped "sound chamber" known as The Integratron. Built by an inventor (and UFO enthusiast) named George Van Tessel in the 1970s, his design was based on a combination of Moses' Tabernacle, the writings of Nikola Tesla, and telepathic communications with extraterrestrials.
Anthony Bourdain visited the site earlier this year. Billy Corgan, from the Smashing Pumpkins, is a fan. Thousands of people flock here to hear the mystical sounds and be "rejuvenated." Oh, and if you want, you can rent out the whole place for an overnight visit.
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Josh Flagg 'Pilots' a 727 Down in Costa Rica
As we mentioned the other day, our own celebrity hotel hopper Josh Flagg has just returned from a wild adventure in Costa Rica where he found a barf bag on the nightstand in his hotel suite.
That's because he was staying inside the totally awesome 727 Fuselage Suite at Costa Verde in Costa Rica. Here's what he said of the high-flying experience:
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If It Actually Gets Built, The Star Trek Theme Resort Will Be the Ultimate Geek Hotel
Sorry Vegas, in a few years, no one will be holding their Star Trek conventions in your town anymore. No, instead they will beam themselves to the new Star Trek Theme Resort being built in Jordan.
Hotels Mag reports that construction on the $1.5 billion theme park and resort will start early next year and when it's completed in 2014 will include four hotels. Four! Details are scant on what else the project, known as the Red Sea Astrarium, will include but there is mention of a Star Trek-themed "space-flight adventure."
Also King Abdullah II is apparently a Trekkie, having made a cameo appearance on “Star Trek: Voyager” in 1995. Ahh...so that's what it's going to take to get our idea for the Battlestar Gallatica adults-only resort off the ground.
Well, we'll still keep our fingers crossed (or open Spock-style?) that the Star Trek resort actually gets built.
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Another Reason Why Digital Nomads Will Flock to the Ace New York: Google Chromebooks
If you've been chomping at the bit to try out a Google Chromebook, the search engine's first foray into laptopdom, then you should book a room at the Ace Hotel in New York, a sceney but studious place that's perfect for digital nomads. Cnet reports that guests who check in to the Ace from July 1 to September 30 will get a Chromebook to use during their stay. Bummer that it's just for three months but maybe if this pilot program goes well, the Ace will keep the Chromebooks on hand for good.
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The Yotel New York Opens Today, With Rooms Booked Up Until Next Thursday
Today. Is. The. Day. Yotel New York has finally opened to the public, though with limited amenities as this is the soft-opening period. The announcement came earlier today on Yotel's official Twitter account, @YotelHQ, and guests should be arriving this afternoon for their very first sleep on the motorized beds of Premium Cabins. First Class Cabins and the VIP suites are not quite ready for their close-up, but trust that we'll keep tabs on them and let you know when it's cool to book one of the rooms with their own terrace hot tubs!
If you'd like to get in on the Yotel freshness, the website is only showing available rooms beginning next Thursday night, June 9. The price? $349. If you can keep your pants on and wait until the night of June 12th however, the rate drops a full hundred down to $249, which sounds so much better for the area being called "Times Square West."
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The Best Geek Hotels in the World for 20.11
Congratulations fellow humans, we've made it to the second decade of the new millennium. We've not only survived Y2K but also, The Rapture and each year, we've acquired new tech skills and gadgets.
We've cycled through countless cell phones (Sidekick anyone?), we've read books without turning a page, everyone and their mother now knows how to text and we're not afraid to put our junk on the internet -- actual junk thanks to Craigslist and eBay, and emotional junk thanks to Facebook and Twitter.
The same tech trends can also be applied to hotels. Wireless internet is practically a compulsory amenity (whether it's free or not is a different story), flat-screen TVs are commonplace, and putting an iPad on the nightstand is not unusual.
So if all these are the norm for hotels in 2011, what makes a hotel geek worthy this year? SciFi decor, keyless entry, karaoke cabins, an underground suite and a Batmobile, to name a few. Go ahead, let your geek flag fly and take a gander at this year's Best Geek Hotels. It is Geek Pride Day after all.
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Inside the Yotel New York, Two Weeks Before It Opens for Good
Forget what you might know about Yotels overseas; those capsule-like rooms are officially Yotel 1.0. What New York is about to get next month, when the first Yotel in the Americas debuts, is Yotel 2.0—a 669-room ode to efficiency and modernity. In fact, the hotel is based on the concept of airplane classes; a Yotel "Premium Cabin" equates to Economy Class, "First Class Cabins" follow, and the VIP Suites are of course where you want to be...especially when you walk in to discover a round, rotating bed, 3-sided fireplace and sprawling outdoor deck with hot tub.
Yes, Yotel has evolved miles from their airport terminal hotels to create something even jaded New York is buzzing about. Just wait until the restaurant and bars open...
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